Razyezzhaya Street
Razyezzhaya ulitsa
Razyezzhaya Street is between Zagorodny Avenue and Ligovsky Avenue
Razyezzhaya Street (in the first half of the 19th century, it was also referred to as Chernyshev Lane)/The road was named in 1739, constructed in the 1740s following the designs of St. Petersburg Construction Commission. It started from the Five Corners and went through Moskovskaya Yamskaya settlement. In 1817-19, Yamskoy market was constructed under the supervision of architect V.P. Stasov. Most buildings date back to the XIX - XX centuries: building 3 was the house of architect M.A. Makarov (1874), building 9 (1872, architect R.A. Gedike), building 19 (1813), building 32/51 (the early XIX century, reconstructed in the 1820-30s), building 33 (1820s).
The following cultural figures lived on Razyezzhaya Street: dancer M.M. Fokin (building 4, 1900), A.I. Kuprin (building 7; there also the editorial office of the journal Mir Bozhy was quartered), N.A. Nekrasov (building 26/24), F. Sologub (building 31, 1910s), critic A.L. Volynsky (building 39/35, 1900s). The editorial office of the journal Apollon was quartered in building 8 in 1909-17, the newspaper Proletary (see Pravda) was printed in the building 17 in August 1917. Today, building 9 accommodates the Memorial Society and the editorial office of the journal Na Nevskom.